2017-18 Panini Prizm Basketball Cards

Always a favorite for NBA collectors, 2017-18 Panini Prizm Basketball is further buoyed by the excitement surrounding the 2017 draft class. In addition to an influx of inserts and Prizm parallels, each 12-pack hobby box contains two autographs.

Particularly interesting to player collectors, the various colors and rarities of the parallels can make for a fun and exciting rainbow to build. In addition to extending some of the Prizms from the 2016-17 set, there are also new choices including retail exclusives.

Falling in nearly every pack, inserts include Emergent, Fundamentals, Get Hyped!, and Luck of the Lottery, which focuses on thefirst 14 draft selections.

2017-18 Panini Prizm Basketball Autographs

Averaging two per box, 2017-18 Prizm NBA features the bulk of its autographs via the Signatures and Rookie Signatures sets. Each of these has a one-of-one Black parallel. Exclusive to blasters, Sensational Signatures covers the first-year players with base versions and Starbust Prizms (#/10).

2017-18 Panini Prizm Basketball Fast Break Edition

A new format for the brand, 2017-18 Panini Prizm Basketball Fast Break offers the same checklist but with exclusive Prizm parallels. This includes Fast Break Blue (#/175), Fast Break Red (#/125), Fast Break Purple (#/75), Fast Break Pink (#/50), Fast Break Bronze (#/20), Fast Break Neon Green (#/5), and Fast Break Black (1/1) versions found nowhere else. There should be four parallels per box numbered to 175 or less, and the exclusive parallels extend to the Inserts and Autographs, as well.

In addition, collectors can expect a rookie autograph from De'Aaron Fox, Jayson Tatum, Lonzo Ball OR Markelle Fultz in each Fast Break case.

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I can’t wait only 3 days to go until singles are up on eBay. I got 5 hobby, 11 Retail boxes and 30 blasters. READY TO RIP!!!!Thank goodnesss for the 2 month pre sell to give me time to buy a couple a week before the prices go nuts.

Major hype for garbage, once again. I watched five people open a total of eight boxes at my store (the entire inventory) and the biggest hit was a $19 card, and only one Lonzo Ball RC in eight $300 boxes. Suckers’ bait once again from Panini, the king of the diluted, overproduced products. But if you like wasting money, don’t listen to me.

Never been impressed for Prizm at all. Nothing really special or creative in it’s design. This was a pure cash grab for Panini. Inflated prices for sub par product. The masses will flock, Panini will reap millions. Rinse and repeat in 4 mos.

As far as value nothing beats prizm. At $120 a box pre sell, this stuff has shot through the roof. Usually anywhere from 1-3 silver prizm rc’s per box. 1 silver prizm can pay for the whole box. Outside of NT nothing brings collectors more cash., and unlike most panini products this will not be $50 a box in a month.

With the great crop of rookies this season, the value in this product is watching said value grow over time. A box is sure to yield at least half of the notable rookies in base cards. If you’re lucky enough to hit one of these rookies as a silver, hyper, or other color parallel you might just make your money back off of one card. The base cards are sharp looking, and the rookies are sharper. Anything else you get in a box should be seen as a bonus. If you’re hoping you’re going to pull a great autograph the chances are slim at 2 per box. Even pulling a rare parallel of a superstar is rare. But if you can afford a hobby box, I highly encourage you break one for fun.

POOR QUALITY control. The surface scratches really easily, specifically with the Prizm Silver cards—many cards have small scratch marks even out of the pack! I am not sure why Panini doesn’t use a more durable gloss coat on the Silver cards. This also was a problem with the 2016-17 Prizm cards. Moreover, I have noticed that the back of the cards have dings, especially the Emergent Silver and Hyper cards. This is similar to the 2014-15 Prizm Refractor mosaic (Yellow and Red, Blue and Green). There other surface issues such as printer/roller marks that are noticeable in the back of the cards. Finally the refractor lines are huge—more so than previous years. Again, very evident on the Hyper refractor cards.

I have spoken with many dealers and collectors who grade their cards and they have noted the same problems. Thus I think the Silver Refractors that are graded BGS 9.5 will be a great investment given that it is hard to come by a “clean” surface card.

Very disappointed with the quality this year especially given the great rookie class. But for all of the sellers who sold these ungraded cards during the first week after the release they made out! The prices are plummeting, for example the Tatum Prizm Silver base was selling for $500 the first couple days and now (2 weeks later) they are going for 250.

Completely agree with the comment about the surface scratches! I have bought a bunch of the Silver and Hyper cards off Ebay (Lonzo Ball, Kuzma,Tatum, Fultz) and I too concur that I have noticed a lot of scratches on the front and back of the cards. The dinged back corners are pretty common as well. I was hoping to get the cards I bought graded but I know it is going to be difficult to get the gem mint grades with this year’s poor product—I miss the 2015-16 Prizm—higher quality and gems a-plenty!

I love this product. Best basketball product of the year. I also love that retail also gets it due with different colored prisms, autos and jersey. Where else can you go buy a blaster box and pull 200.00 to over thousands of dollars for a pull. I buy it whenever I see it. The first 5 blasters i opened produced a lonzo ball silver and green refractor from the same box and a Jason tatum auto from another. I know every box is not a winner but for the price you cant go wrong. Mark my words, this product will go up and will soon be out of most people’s price range. Look at previous years of this product. So dont get caught with your pants down on this one. Highly recommended and buy those colored singles on eBay before they dry up and triple in price. Good luck and have fun opening this stuff.

I look at it this way. It’s all about demand in this industry, everything else is secondary. Do I have grievances, absolutely. But it does not change the fact this product sells. So far I have purchased 5 jumbo packs, 30 retail packs, and 3 blasters. I have opened everything except 2 blaster boxes and 4 retail packs, which will be opened along with other stuff I have been waiting to rip for my New Years Eve Pack Jam. Any how the rewards have been very very slim thus far. I got a green parallel OG Anunobo, De’Aaron Fox silver hyper, Lebron James silver get hyped, autographed card of a G-league bum, a few green parallels of players nobody hasn’t ever heard of, 3 base Kevin Durants and a few other notable base superstar cards.

It’s called card collecting for a reason folks. There is a fine line and you gotta weight out the scenario. Don’t blame Panini, it’s your money, you have to be wise…Otherwise, you’re not gonna not have very much fun or make anything out of it. Right now I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt. If things don’t change, I already have a contingency plan. Like the fact when I was just strictly purchasing 2017-18 Panini Hoops and have plenty of Donavan Mitchell’s, Jason Tatums, Lauri Markenens, Dennis Smith Jr., and of course a plethora of Kyle Kuzmas and Lonzo Balls.

At the end of the day I’m giving Prizm about the same amount of purchasing as I did the first time around. Otherwise the money will be put back into other products that yield more consistently, while still keeping value in the long term. Enjoi

Shockingly…or maybe not that shockingly…I’ve had better luck in the retail version of this product. I landed a Donovan Mitchell auto out of retail products, but I somehow always get non rc autos of people that aren’t very popular when I make a trip to the hobby store. Other than that – I love the look of this product. The success of this RC class has kept the resale value up and I’ve been able to sell off some cards I don’t want in order to keep going back for more.

This is a great product. Very exciting to open! I don’t normally break Basketball, but I was addicted to the PRIZM rush as soon as I opened the first pack. Pulled a Prizm Orange Tatum /49 and a Giannis auto /25. I opened lots (6-7) boxes, so I don’t exactly know how lucky I got. COLOR, COLOR, COLOR!!

HI, ALL. DOES ANYBODY ENCOUNTER THE RETAIL BLASTER BOX RESEALER? I WENT TO MY LOCAL RETAIL STORE SATURDAY AND FOUND 2 BLASTER BOXES OF THE PRIZM. I THOUGHT WHAT LUCK. HOWEVER, AS I WAS WALKING TO CHECKOUT I NOTICED THE TOP SEAL DIDNT FEEL RIGHT IN MY HAND. I LOOKED CLOSER AT THE BOX AND THERE WAS A PIECE OF CLEAR TAPE ACROSS THE TOP OF THE BOX. THE OTHER ONE WAS THE SAME. WHEN I PICKED THE TAPE OFF THE WHOLE TOP PANEL OF THE SEAL CAME WITH IT. WHO DOES THIS? I HAVE BEEN BURNED BEFORE BY THIS LOSER BANDIT. ONE TIME MY BOX HAD COCA-COLA PLAYING CARDS IN ALL THE PACKS. PLEASE STOP….

This year’s design was better for me compared to last year’s.The rcs looks awesome and with a great rookie class, should be highly collectible as well. A lot of parallels to chase makes it a tad harder for a rainbow and sticker autos brings down a star for me.

Almost impossible to find any retail versiosn but seems like though the hobby box prices have raised, the actual value of the cards being sold are sinking. thoughts? has the bubble burst on this product for the moment with Contenders and Optic and Select all on the horizon

Opened a case of this and am highly disappointed. Only half of my autos were of actual rookies, which normally wouldn’t be a huge issue but the “veteran” autos you get are mostly just 2nd year sticker dumps. Dwight Powell (x2), Georgios Papagiannis, Ivica Zubac, Willy Hernangomez, Chinanu Onuaku, Seth Curry, Marcus Smart. That’s 1/3 of the autos. Coaches cards in the set is just weird and wasted 8-10 low #’d prizm colors on them. The only redeeming quality of this product was all the color and #’d cards. Otherwise this would have gotten 1 star from me. Classic Panini trash.

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